I need to find something to do w/ my strat. I see it sitting there, and it seems a shame not to use it.
Then I start thinking about what I'd upgrade. Pick ups for sure - that thing needs a humbucker. A new pickguard would be needed to accommodate that. Plus the knobs are constantly falling off and electronics would need to be replaced and/or cleaned up.
But then, I can't really just put a mighty new loaded pickguard on that damaged body. There's a pretty nasty dent in it and a few not as bad ones... I guess I could have the finish stripped off, the whole thing sanded and repainted. I'd like it painted white and with a black pickguard - if I'm to re-do it, might as well have it the way I want.
That being said, I might as well just buy a new body from Warmoth or Mighty Might, put the new electronics and pickguard on that and snap on the old neck. Except that, at that point, I realize that there's nothing so special about my old maple neck and that I tend to prefer rosewood these days...
So basically, the only thing I'd use from it would be the tuners and the bridge - not because I like them but because they don't really bother me.
That's why my old strat is still sitting there...